Victorian Liberal Party backbencher Russell Broadbent,72, has quit the Liberals after losing pre-selection for his long-held seat of Monash at the weekend. He now sits on the cross-bench.
Broadbent was a critic of mandatory Covid jabs and supported Ivermectin as a cure.

Mr Broadbent has long been an outspoken voice in the Coalition party room and was one of a handful of MPs who opposed its policy of offshore processing for refugees in 2006.
In 2017, he was one of four MPs who voted against same-sex marriage legislation.
More recently he opposed mandatory vaccination during the pandemic and promoted the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin.
Nothing has changed in the compromised Liberal, or Labor Party for that matter when it comes to criticism of the Covid regime.
Pfizer rules the roost in Australia and just about every other country which signed up to their deadly, experimental gene-altering concoction that has caused more than 30,000 excess deaths across Australia.
With a claimed 91 per cent national vaccination rate there are many more deaths coming in the next few years.

Is it any wonder Queensland’s health system has disintegrated and Ambulances are ramping at most major hospitals for many hours every day, unable to cope with cardiac and blood clot disorders that were not prevalent until the jabs started nearly three years ago.
Broadbent joins the capable Liberal senator Gerrard Rennick who took on Big Pharma in the senate seriously questioning the mRNA inoculations and the ensuing epidemic of adverse reactions and deaths.
Rennick was placed in an unwinnable spot on the Liberals senate ticket.
tonyryan43, said: ” We have to work with the tools that we have got.
The alternative is civil war. I would rather try democracy first, no matter how imperfectly.”
For sure.
Make use of the 1901 Constitution, and make necessary changes, by way of Community requests and agreements, that has to be the main tool.
I believe that the Communities would
make use of the present good politicians, who are already well known to us.
No civil war, just overwhelming people power, in all Australian Communities.
It would take months, not years, to obtain almost immediate results of value.
I am still waiting for a major event, a huge shock, a sudden retaliation, that will turn the sleepy, brainwashed and indoctrinated sheeple into wide awake
fellow Australian freedom fighters.
Not holding my breath waiting for that to happen.
Ron… I agree 100%.
But if the small political parties are drawn together on the the condition that all policy comes from the people through consensus (as in the recent referendum) then by definition they are no longer political parties.
The problem with parties is, loyalty is to the party, not to the poeple. But if the party apparatus is forced to comply with community consensus it becomes a conduit for consensus People Power.
We can be purist and say “we will have nothing to do with parties” but the reality is most people equate this with democracy, however wrongly. We have to work with the tools that we have got.
The alternative is civil war. I would rather try democracy first, no matter how imperfectly.
A single thought – this fellow didn’t spit the dummy and bail until AFTER he was excluded from “preselection”.
So what ARE his priorities? Rhetorical, of course.
Party politics got us into this mess, party politics will not get us out of it.
Party politics are not part of our 1901 Constitution.
Remember the Democrats? The third party to keep the others honest – they destroyed the Democrats.
Community elected representatives who serve limited terms, and are recalled by the communities if they do not serve the communities who elected them.
No political parties, no career politicians/representatives.
Start at local level (shonky corporate local governments) then state and federal.
Anything else is a complete waste of time and effort.
More political parties – more of the same.
People need to get their heads around the political party duopoly. The ALP and LNP are an illusion to make us think we have a choice. We do not. Queensland’s one-time Liberal funder, Clive Palmer let this cat out of the bag when he first entered politics. Being the top donor, he knew the truth and was fearless enough to expose it.
Our real problem in Australia is the egotistical element who see themselves as political messiahs, and who believe they must be leader. I name Pauline Hanson as the very worst of these, undeniable when she named her party the “Pauline Hanson One Nation Party”. Australia comes first, not personalities or professional politicians.
This rampant egotism and megalomania is preventing the formation of a new middle-ground party in Australia because each convenor wants to be The Big Boss; no doubt with dreams of being Australia’s first President. History tells us such personalities quickly become tyrants, protecting their power at all costs.
True Aussie patriots are despairing, but there is a solution.
What we should do is form a third political force to explain the inconventint facts of life to these destroyers of Australia’s future. Having a forceful contingent of Patriots front up and clarify reality in unambiguous terms, will shatter the confidence of even the the most intractable ‘leader’. We can then extract a contract forcing these petty messiahs to bow to the will of the people… or else.
To kickstart this we need a group formed who is prepared to do the hard yards, which includes shutting down the megalomaniacs. We do not need a leader. All we need is patriots who are prepared to follow policy that is formulated by our own consensus. We do not have to agree on much; just the need to ensure a powerful new political entity emerges in Australia that will be guided by the people and not lobbies. A few men and women who appear on this forum would make a nice start.
If Pauline and Clive would agree to this, we would be up and running tomorrow and could have the nation managed by patriotic Aussies before Easter.
Now we will see the real true content of certain souls.
Been voting conservative from the start but will never go down the path again-contrary to the previous comment Abbott has been our best PM since the rot started after the War11-Lord Monckton got it right when he said Tony Abbott’s stance against the global warming scam could lead to him being removed before the United Nations Climate Change Conference on December 11, 2015: Tony Abbott was deposed tonight.
“First of all, you all need to guard tony Abbott’s back. Because the Turnbull faction, in conjunction with the UN, will be doing their absolute level best to remove your elected prime minister from office before the end of his term, and in particular before December 11 2015. So they can get a 100% wall to wall Marxist agreement, they do not want any standouts. And the most likely standout at the moment is Australia, god bless it.” He would have been our only hope-as for Pauline Hanson she was a liberal wannabe who was miffed at not being wanted and conspired with labor (,as she quite often does) to get the liberals taken down consequently labor has been in ever since except for a brief moment and has taken a thriving state to bankruptcy -Liberals in Qld have never recovered as for what happened to Pauline and jail I don’t know but blaming Abbott per se is wrong and why would Beattie be included -he started the rot in Qld but why would Libs and labor join forces here is a step too far
They have lost me a long time ago and you would have to be BLIND not to notice that the NWO 0wns the twin duopoly labor and lnp Greens last and whatever the duopoly you place at the end of the ticket, I woke to ABBOTT and beattie when they conspired to have Pauline and her offsider jailed , GETTING to close to become a politicial advesary the P H O N